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Zusatztext This is an exciting and comprehensive study on how museums represent religion and the future prospects. Informationen zum Autor Gretchen Buggeln holds the Duesenberg Chair in Christianity and the Arts at Valparaiso University, Indiana, USA. Crispin Paine is a Visiting Fellow at the Open University, UK. S. Brent Plate is Visiting Associate Professor of Religious Studies at Hamilton College, New York, USA. S. Brent Plate is Visiting Associate Professor in the Department of Religious Studies at Hamilton College, USA and Managing Editor of Material Religion . A comprehensive survey of how museums represent religion as well as the future prospects, bringing together religious studies scholars and museum curators. Zusammenfassung Bringing together scholars and practitioners from North America, Europe, Russia, and Australia, this pioneering volume provides a global survey of how museums address religion and charts a course for future research and interpretation. Contributors from a variety of disciplines and institutions explore the work of museums from many perspectives, including cultural studies, religious studies, and visual and material culture. Most museums throughout the world – whether art, archaeology, anthropology or history museums – include religious objects, and an increasing number are beginning to address religion as a major category of human identity. With rising museum attendance and the increasingly complex role of religion in social and geopolitical realities, this work of stewardship and interpretation is urgent and important. Religion in Museums is divided into six sections: museum buildings, reception, objects, collecting and research, interpretation of objects and exhibitions, and the representation of religion in different types of museums. Topics covered include repatriation, conservation, architectural design, exhibition, heritage, missionary collections, curation, collections and display, and the visitor's experience. Case studies provide comprehensive coverage and range from museums devoted specifically to the diversity of religious traditions, such as the State Museum of the History of Religion in St Petersburg, to exhibitions centered on religion at secular museums, such as Hajj: Journey to the Heart of Islam , at the British Museum. Inhaltsverzeichnis Contents List of Figures List of Contributors Acknowledgements Foreword, Sally Promey (Professor of Religion and Visual Culture at the Yale Institute of Sacred Music and Professor of American Studies and Religious Studies, Yale University, USA) Introduction: Religion in Museums, Museums as Religion, Gretchen Buggeln, Crispin Paine, and S. Brent Plate Part One: Museum Buildings 1. Museum Architecture and the Sacred: Modes of Engagement, Gretchen Buggeln (Duesenberg Chair in Christianity and the Arts, Valparaiso University, USA) 2. Toward a Theology of the Art Museum, Karla Cavarra Britton (Yale School of Architecture, USA) 3. Native Americans on the National Mall: The Architecture of the Museum of the American Indian, Smithsonian Institution, Gretchen Buggeln (Duesenberg Chair in Christianity and the Arts, Valparaiso University, USA), with Douglas Cardinal (Architect, National Museum of the American Indian, USA) and Tim Johnson (National Museum of American History, USA) Part Two: Objects, Museums, Religions 4. The Museumification of Religion: Human Evolution and the Display of Ritual, S. Brent Plate (Visiting Associate Professor of Religious Studies, Hamilton College, USA) 5. A ltar as Museum, Museum as Altar: Ethnography, Devotion, and Display, Mary Nooter Roberts (UCLA, USA) 6. Religious History Objects in Museums, Lauren F. Turek (Trinity University in San Antonio, USA) 7. Archaeological Displays: Ancient Objects, Current Beliefs, Chiara Zu...
